Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert Frost
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ~Mark Twain
Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"
Tomorrow - your reward for working safely today. ~Author Unknown
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ~Aesop, "The Man and His Two Wives," Fables
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. ~Mark Twain I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing we get to rain. ~Linda Solegato
It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~Sallust
No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps. ~Charles F. Mullett
We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. ~H.L. Mencken
Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. ~Edward Somers
If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ~Marcel Proust
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. ~John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. ~Leonardo da Vinci
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. ~Virgil, The Eclogues
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ~Johnny Carson
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~George S. Patton
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford